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W. M. GRISHAM. GATE.

Patented June 7, 1892'.

Uivrrnn dramas ATENI FMCEG lVlLEY M. GRISIIAM, OF -WINCHESTER, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALEXANDER CAMPBELL PALMER, OF SAME PLACE.

GATE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,379, dated June 7, 1892.

Application filed September 24, 1891' Serial No. 406,664. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, lVILEY M. GRISHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVinchester, in the county of Scott and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Gate, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in tilting gates.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of tilting gates, to enable the same to be readily opened and closed by little effort on the part of the operator, and to take all strain from the gate when open and in a tilted position.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a gate constructed in accordance with thisinvention and shown closed. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, partly in elevation, the gate being open.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a tilting gate having its lower inner end pivoted between supporting-posts 2 by a horizontal bar 3, which is centrally secured to the gate and has its ends provided with journals 4, arranged in bearing-openings 5 of the supporting-posts. The gate is supported by truss-rods 6 and 7, arranged in pairs on opposite sides of the gate, having their lower ends secured to the horizontal bar 3 and diverging therefrom and having their upper ends secured to the upper ends of the inner end bars 8 of the gate and to an intermediate point of one of the horizontal rails 9, and the said gate is operated by a rope 10, having its outer ends passed over pulleys of the supporting-posts 2 and uprights 11, which are arranged asufficient distance from the gate to bring within convenient reach its outer ends, which are provided with handles. The intermediate portion of the gate-operating rope is passed in reverse directions through perforations formed in the guide-plate 2i, that extends upwardly from the upper rail of the gate, so that aloop 25 is formed at the front of the guide-plate. The gate is counterbalanced and made easy to tilt by a lever 12, having its lower end fulcrumed on theinner end of the gate and provided between its ends with a recess 13, and having alimited movement within akeeper 14. By this construction when the gate is opened the weight of the lever 12 will rest upon the ground and willrelieve the gate of any strain.

To assist the counterbalancing-lever in opening the gate, a weight 15 is employed and is attached to one end of a rope 16. This passes over a pulley 17 of an arm 18, extending from a supporting-post 19, and the other end of the rope 16 is attached to the outer or upper end of the lever 12. The weight may consist of a ball of iron, as will be readily understood; but it is preferably in the form of a box adapted to contain some weighty substance, thereby enabling this supplemental weight to be readily adjusted to suit the weight of the gate. This may be done by taking out some of the contents of the box or putting more into it.

The operating cord or rope at its loop portion is connected by a rope 20 with a latch 21, arranged to engage a notch formed in the latch-post 22 and to be withdrawn from such engagement by the operating-ropes.

It will be seen that the gate is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction; that it is readily operated by a person on foot, in a vehicle, or on horseback; that its operation is unaifected by heavy wind, and that it will operate readily in winter when there is a heavy snow upon the ground.

hat I claim is The combination of the opposite supporting-posts, a gate provided at its lower inner corner with a horizontal bar j ournaled at its ends in the posts near their bottoms, akeeper extending from the inner end of the gate, a counterbalancing-lever fulcrumed at its lower end on the gate and having its outer side provided with a notch that loosely receives the keeper, a post arranged in rear of the said lever and provided with a pulley and weight, a rope passing over the pulley and connected to the weight and to the upper end of the lever, posts at opposite sides of the gate-supporting posts, a gate-operating rope having its outer ends passed over pulleys supported by said posts and the gate-supporting posts and terminating in polls, the

5 guide-plate secured to the Upper rail of the gate and having theinner portion of the gateoperating rope passed from reverse sides through its perforations and forming 2L loop,

a notched latch-post, the spring-latch located 10 on the free end of the gate, and the rope leading from the free end of the latch to, the loop portion of the gate-operating rope, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in :5 the presence of two witnesses.

WILEY M. GRISIIAH. lVitnesses:

WILEY L. KELLEY, FRED OALLANs. 

